diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 55cb85634..e6794092f 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ border-radius: 128px;
     - The Admin Tagging Status table shows what is being looked up right now.
     - Sorting by a tag column outside the table view (cover cards, OPDS feeds)
       no longer errors.
+    - Reading Bottom to Top jumped to the wrong page. The page list runs
+      backwards in that direction, so opening a comic, changing pages from the
+      toolbar or following a link landed on the mirrored page — page one showed
+      the last page. Top to Bottom was never affected.
 
 ## v2.2.11
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/reader/pager/pager-vertical.vue b/frontend/src/components/reader/pager/pager-vertical.vue
index 153a83630..c4cf6523d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/reader/pager/pager-vertical.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/reader/pager/pager-vertical.vue
@@ -150,7 +150,13 @@ export default {
       this.programmaticScroll = true;
       const vs = this.$refs.verticalScroll;
       if (vs) {
-        vs.scrollToIndex(page);
+        /*
+         * ``items`` runs backwards for bottom-to-top reading, so a page
+         * number is not its own index there: page 0 is the last item.
+         * Look the page up in ``items`` rather than repeating the
+         * reversal, so this keeps following however that list is built.
+         */
+        vs.scrollToIndex(this.items.indexOf(page));
       } else {
         console.debug("Can't find verticalScroll component.");
       }
diff --git a/frontend/tests/unit/pager-vertical.test.js b/frontend/tests/unit/pager-vertical.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5579208b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/tests/unit/pager-vertical.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+/*
+ * Tests for ``pager-vertical.vue`` page-to-index mapping.
+ *
+ * The vertical pager feeds ``v-virtual-scroll`` a list of page numbers, and
+ * reverses that list for bottom-to-top reading. ``scrollToIndex`` takes an
+ * index into that list, so a page number is only its own index while
+ * reading top-to-bottom. Passing the page number straight through sent
+ * bottom-to-top readers to the mirrored page — opening at page 0 landed on
+ * the last page.
+ */
+import { createTestingPinia } from "@pinia/testing";
+import { mount } from "@vue/test-utils";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, test, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import PagerVertical from "@/components/reader/pager/pager-vertical.vue";
+import vuetify from "@/plugins/vuetify";
+
+const PK = 7;
+const MAX_PAGE = 9;
+
+let wrappers = [];
+
+function mountPager(readingDirection) {
+  const scrollToIndex = vi.fn();
+  const pinia = createTestingPinia({
+    // getBookSettings has to really run to return the seeded settings.
+    stubActions: false,
+    initialState: {
+      reader: {
+        page: 0,
+        // Seeded settings are returned as-is by getBookSettings.
+        bookSettings: {
+          [PK]: {
+            readingDirection,
+            isVertical: true,
+            isReadInReverse: readingDirection === "btt",
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    },
+  });
+  const wrapper = mount(PagerVertical, {
+    props: { book: { pk: PK, maxPage: MAX_PAGE } },
+    global: {
+      plugins: [pinia, vuetify],
+      stubs: {
+        ScaleForScroll: { template: "<div><slot /></div>" },
+        // The pager reaches the scroller through the ref, so the spy has
+        // to live on the stub the ref resolves to.
+        VVirtualScroll: { template: "<div />", methods: { scrollToIndex } },
+      },
+    },
+  });
+  wrappers.push(wrapper);
+  return { wrapper, scrollToIndex };
+}
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  for (const wrapper of wrappers) {
+    wrapper.unmount();
+  }
+  wrappers = [];
+});
+
+describe("PagerVertical — scrolling to a page", () => {
+  test("top to bottom scrolls to the page's own index", () => {
+    const { wrapper, scrollToIndex } = mountPager("ttb");
+
+    wrapper.vm.scrollToPage(3);
+
+    expect(wrapper.vm.items[3]).toBe(3);
+    expect(scrollToIndex).toHaveBeenCalledWith(3);
+  });
+
+  test("bottom to top scrolls to the page's mirrored index", () => {
+    const { wrapper, scrollToIndex } = mountPager("btt");
+
+    wrapper.vm.scrollToPage(3);
+
+    expect(wrapper.vm.items[6]).toBe(3);
+    expect(scrollToIndex).toHaveBeenCalledWith(6);
+  });
+
+  test("bottom to top opens page 0 at the end of the list", () => {
+    const { wrapper, scrollToIndex } = mountPager("btt");
+
+    wrapper.vm.scrollToPage(0);
+
+    expect(scrollToIndex).toHaveBeenCalledWith(MAX_PAGE);
+  });
+
+  test("bottom to top reaches the last page at the top of the list", () => {
+    const { wrapper, scrollToIndex } = mountPager("btt");
+
+    wrapper.vm.scrollToPage(MAX_PAGE);
+
+    expect(scrollToIndex).toHaveBeenCalledWith(0);
+  });
+});